Manoa Language and Culture Programs Receive $8 MillionAsian and Pacific Language Programs funded. Read more
KudosWest O'ahu’s Gene Awakuni, Chris Conybeare, Manoa’s Hazel Beh, Charles Booth, Sanjay Nadkarni, Randall Roth, Hilo’s Jean Ippolito, David Miller, Wayne Miyamoto and Ken Staton. Read moreNew BookManoa's Rebecca Knuth publishes Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction. Read more
Photos HighlightsUH's banner in Iraq, the staff at Leeward CC Wai‘anae and Manoa's carved pumpkins. Read more
UH EventsTed Kooser speaks at Manoa and Windward, Windward’s Take 5 with Nature exhibit, Leeward’s Arabian Nights, Hilo’s Jane Eyre and International Education Week, Maui’s Boteilho reading, Manoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Merwin on Bibliovision, Ying Quartet performance and Becker lecture and Kaua‘i’s The Lines Are Drawn. Read more
Kapi'olani Receives Grants
Kapi'olani was awarded three grants totalling $769,600 for the development of a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) learning center in the Kokio Building.
The major grant is from the U.S. Department of Education for second stage renovations to integrate new technologies for a wide range of purposes. The second Hawai'i EPSCoR grant is to purchase three Geographic Information System workstations for the STEM Learning Center, a poster printer to showcase student and faculty work, and supplies. The third grant is from NSF-Science and Civic Engagement for connecting one science and one social science course with community-based research and service in Palolo Valley for spring 2007.
These grants were team efforts with major contributions from Coordinators Kelli Goya and Keolani Noa, Professors John Rand and Judith Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor Bob Moeng and Instructors Herve Collin and Veronica Ogata.